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Hevi Shorash served both her home nations, Kurdistan and Germany, acting as a bridge between the two after the fight against the Islamic State had begun. She recalls the importance of the Kurdistan Training Coordination Center, where six nations provided rotating trainings to Kurdish Peshmerga forces fighting the group.

Tahir Salam Mohamad tells the story of his family’s flight from Palestine to Iraq in 1948. Once in the new country they were forced to resettle many times–including in the last years–because of economic hardship and a series of violent conflicts that have plagued the country.